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Heavylift delivers hydraulic hammer for the offshore industry
The Hamburg-based shipping company SAL Heavylift has specialized in transporting such extra-heavy elements as blades, generators or tower sections for wind power units. Its heavy-lift vessels move around the globe with highly trained technical crews.
SAL Heavy Lift sees itself as a traditional Hamburg firm. “Even though we were founded as a family firm in Lower Saxony in 1980, in Altes Land, South of Hamburg,” explains Christian Hoffmann, the shipping company’s spokesman. The bulk of the fleet was built in Altes Land at Sietas Werft, the shipyard based there. “This too demonstrates our commitment to the region,” he adds. Meanwhile owned by family-run shipping group Harren & Partner of Bremen, SAL is now based in Hafen City, Hamburg’s maritime quar- ter.
SAL owns a fleet of 22 heavy-lift vessels that is de- ployed wherever needed all over the world. “These consist of top-category vessels in the heavy-lift seg- ment. They have lifting capacities from 550 up to 2,000 tons,” says Hoffmann. “We are a tramp ship- ping company, sailing to wherever we are needed,” he explains. On board are the company’s own well trained crews and engineers, offering industrial cus- tomers a technical service on both transport and
logistics. Movement of the ships during worldwide deployment is planned by the headquarters staff in Hamburg.
Typical loads transported by SAL vessels are wind power units and/or elements for wind farms, such as blades, generators or tower sections. In addition, for the offshore wind sector the company transports enormous, heavy foundation sections that can be 100 metres long and weigh up to 1,000 tons and more. SAL also serves port crane manufacturers, and trans- ports tugboats, ferries or workboats to recipients all over the world.
Other customers come from the oil/gas industry. The specialist in heavy-lift elements sails out and back, for ex- ample, with heavy-lift segments for refineries. From Hamburg, SAL also ships heavy-lift hammers. These are 25 metres high and weigh approx. 580 tons. The offshore industry requires them for ramming home long, heavy piles. “These are handled through Wallmann & Co’s uni- versal terminal here in the Port of Hamburg,” explains
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